On Lobster Cuts &
Mother Nature

by Sandra Dinsmore

Stonington, Maine. DMR Commissioner Patrick Keliher, standing, addresses a group of fishermen. The meeting was one of 16 held along the Maine coast to discuss options for getting more control of lobster pricing, marketing and changes in fishery habitat. A range of proposals are being considered and decisions on some proposals are expected by early summer. © Photo by Sam Murfitt



How can the lobster industry raise the boat price when there are so many lobsters on the bottom? The Lobster Advisory Council [LAC] raised this question to about one hundred lobster industry members made up of fishermen, dealers, and even a few political representatives at a meeting in Camden last August.

Several weeks later, the LAC met and formed a sub-committee of eight fishermen plus the Maine Lobstermen’s [MLA] and Down East Lobstermen’s [DELA] Association presidents to look into what, if anything could or should be done to try to prevent a glut.

Cutler fisherman and LAC sub-committee member John Drouin said, “People are kind of skittish, and nobody wants to do a whole heck of a lot, but yet everybody says that something should be done.”

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CONTENTS

Rum Runners and the Age of Prohibition

Editorial – The New Independence

SW Boatworks Receives Recognition

Dealer Comments on Lobster Handling Backed by Science

Canadian Marketer on Current Lobster Markets

Crew Agreements?

Letters to the Editor

Lobster Heads to Markets

Opinion – The End of "Overfishing"?

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Lobster Shake-Up: The No-Glut Way to Who Fishes What

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